Turn 6: 1:21 AM
SHAW (In unknown location)
Malus: Overwhelming Monkey's Paw (Starting location) Hardwired Training (Difficult to learn unrelated skills.)
Stats
HP:8/8
MP:1
EG:2
PP:0
Passives
Novice Walker Pilot; You understand the basics of Piloting a small variety of Military grade mech suits.
Inventory (1/10)
Laser PDW
Pilot pressure suit
4, you awaken from cryosleep with a massive headache in the cockpit of your SHAW (Super-Heavy Assault Walker) All of the systems seem to be slightly damaged, and the Visual Cameras are simply pure white when you turn them on.
The cockpit has some very small amenities in addition to it's high damage loadout, a minifridge behind your seat, an AC and a cryosleep capsule built into the seat to preserve yourself for long periods are attached.
It is blistering hot in here, you wonder just what must be wrong with your mech for it to be this overheated.
Power is at a critical 17%, it will last maybe 96 hours at best.
An unknown Trail
Malus: Weak start, (Crashed into ground) Odd Reactions (Otherworldly Species) Foreign Linguist (Otherworldly Species)
Stats
HP:6/6
MP:13
EG:2
PP:4
Passives
Unfamiliar; When nothing can look in your direction, unobstructed, your form becomes fluid and incomprehensible, but otherwise, you transform into a mundane cat, mirrors will not trigger this effect, Being in direct view of the sun however, will.
Feline Amusement; your mind is captivated by this form's alien thoughts, and can be distracted by bright objects moving at high speed.
Rituals
Puppet Ritual; You can raise corpses into Undead minions, up to a maximum of Three at a time. These creatures are utterly without control, and only respond to your direct and simple orders. uses a triangle of three bone posts in the ground, each topped with a small rock.
Normal Spells
Foot in the Void; When certain stars align, you can open a temporary hole into the void, through which something will be dragged out. This hole can only appear within unobstructed line of sight and no more than 2 feet away from you.
What dimensions?
It only occupies a few other dimentions you are not familiar with. A Sphere occupies it's chest in one reality, and a web of lines occupies another and surrounds it.
Burning village outskirts
Malus: Delicious, (Bonus Malus) Starting in potential danger, (Burning village) Polymorphed, (Pig).
Stats
HP:25/25
MP:2
EG:6
PP:1
Passive
Jewel Lust; as a being of law, your soul's power and magic increases with your material wealth, and little else.
Generous portions; you require more food to survive and thrive, but can go longer without it.
Raw Scent; Dangerous creatures are more attracted to you, while less dangerous ones and humanoids are unable to track you by scent.
Other Abilities
Rush; Spend EG in order to move more quickly in a panic.
Inventory (1/10)
Burnt Quartz Disk
Oink misses his beautiful majesty, his wings and his magic so he didn't have to do all this frigging manual labour! How do wingless creatures even survive? No wonder he had such an easy time roasting and devouring them all. Well, right up until the last one.
Oink drags the wood and tarsalt to the edge of the rogues' camp. If they remain slumbering he will add wood (as below) to the fire to get it burning again. Once it has at least a moderate flame going, he will toss on the tarsalt clumps and scurry for the underbrush before the noxious smoke catches him.
Building a Fire, from Iituem's dodgy personal experience on the matter.
Some of this work may already have been done in the rogue's fire to start with.
Step One, try not to be so self-conscious,
Two, shift your weight onto your haunches,
Three, lift yourself into the air and
Four, just forget your parents are both dead!
1. Move three or four larger sticks into a tripod or pyramidal shape atop the firepit. Make sure they're balanced and feel free to wedge them into the dirt a bit if it will help keep them stable.
2. Using the smaller dry twigs and branches, create a rough bedding of firewood around the pyramid, placing twigs and branches on the supports of the 'tripod' and making sure that there is a central column free within the pile of firewood with free air passages at the base. It is vital to have the airways as air needs to be able to enter at the base of the fire, move up through the middle and then exit at the top.
2a. You can tear dry bark off to help with kindling.
3. Light your kindling. This can be the hard, frustrating part, but fortunately the embers of the fire should still be hot, even if it has been a few hours now. Brushing the remaining embers with a stick, expose some air to any still-glowing parts, or simply find the hottest part of the 'dark' embers. Touch your finest kindling to the hot embers, blow gently and you will eventually get a small flame. Touch this to the rest of the kindling, shield against the wind and keep trying until you get a sustained fire.
4. Once the kindling is on fire, continue adding small, then medium sticks and eventually logs, making sure to keep the tripod shape stable and not to block up the airways or collapse the structure. Oink will actually want to stop for time's sake as soon as a moderate fire is going - as that should be enough to burn the tarsalt.
Depending on skill, this could take anywhere from half an hour to two hours to accomplish. Step three is the bastard.
18, your snout serves you well, and you push one of the sticks from one of the piles. It seems to be stuck.
You shove it again and it flips over, rolling as a whole backwards. It starts turning around and it's rolling speeds up, until you are forced to Jump out of the way.
The Librarian, in his thirst for knowledge, journeyed to the Infinite Library to explore and become wiser/smarter. The Infinite Library is, well, an infinitely large library, with books that range from spell tomes, to skill books, to eldritch tomes that give maluses when read; even books that transport the reader to other worlds (a la Myst)! He is standing just inside the entrance.
Malus: Leagues apart (High level area) Bookworm (Lower chance for learning spells outside of Spellbooks.) Monkey's paw gear.
Stats
HP:5
MP:7
EG:0
PP:0
Passives
Bookworm; Learning things from books has a higher success chance, but learning them from other means has a much lower chance, Wizard Trades are disabled.
Normal Spells
Merel Stardust's Layered Ice; Creates a layer of ice on a surface, the effect is stronger when used on wet surfaces or water, and can be empowered with additional mana.
Merel Stardust's Earthdust; fills a hole with fragile soil or other material that is 98% air and collapses when any weight is put on it.
Pries Omen's Book of Filth; Reveals hidden dark magic from a spellbook, Requires at least 56 Grams of Spessartite Garnet Dust as a consumed reagent.
Inventory (12/10) OVERBURDENED
Ruby Spellbook
Leather Gi,
59 pixels (19.6 Feet) of Parchment roll,
2 1-pint Wooden Bottles of ink,
Textured wooden Stylus/wand,
Big Hat,
30 Pixel Length of rope.
33 Pixel telescopic pole,
12 Jerky Rations,
12 Bottles of Water,
6 jars of Peach preserve,
6 Small biscuits.
"Well, I would leave if I could get the door open. Do you mind helping me?"
If it agrees to help, go outside with it, and, if it is mindless, thwack it really hard with my extendable pole, utilizing the quarterstaff training that I received in wizard school. If it isn't mindless and agrees to help, inquire as to why it's guarding this place. If it does not agree to help me, thwack it really hard with my extendable pole (swing blindly in a horizontal arc in front of me if I can't see it), utilizing the quarterstaff training that I received in wizard school.
"Go... BACK!"You are Slammed into the door, opening it and throwing you from it. -1 HP
The door slams shut once more.
Unknown
Malus: Newborn (No starting learned skills) Unknown area (Starting location) Cursed Blade (Bonus Malus) Honor of the Clan (Bonus Malus) Tiny (Bonus Malus)
Stats
HP:7/8
MP:4
EG:4
PP:2
Passive
Newborn; Learning things in general is easier.
Honor of the Clan; your actions must not bring shame to your clan, and your power must be used in the same way.
Panic Spores; Automatically releases mundane Mushroom spores when frightened, depleting 1 EG.
Inventory (2/10)
Hitsuji no zōo, Cursed Urumi
I approach the thing and attempt to communicate. I ask it is's name.
6, 17, It does not respond, but does not attack either, it's sniffing extends to you as well. it walks around you getting a good nosefull.
The middle of a rather menacing forest
Malus: Time Bullshit (Starting location) Dangerous Area (Starting location) Omnisensitive (Species Malus)
Stats
HP:4
MP:7
EG:1
PP:1
TB:0%
Normal Spells
Prewind; Allows the user to specify a time in the future or past for himself to be dragged from, but this causes Time Bullshit Value to increase.
Telepathy; Allows the user to communicate with beings telepathically
Wish I; Allows the user to attempt to grant another being's wish in a very minor way by influencing future events telepathically.
Inventory (2/10)
AWC Collar
Lead Monolicule
0-My, my, THIs is interesting.-0
The good Baron attempts to wake up the young lady by going up to the sleeping lady's head and purring loudly. At the same time, the good Baron tries to make psychic contact and purrhaps get some insight into the nature of her sleep.
0-Wake up, little one. A majestic cat fairy is here. And they want to help you.-0
"Ohhhhgh... What? Who is there?" her eyes open, a piercing teal color, with white tint.
Argrark's Home
Malus: Magicless (Species Malus) Repitition (Bonus Malus) Untrusted (Starting Location) Repitition (Bonus Malus).
Stats
HP:15
EG:10
PP:3
Passives
Windup; You must find a means of rewinding your Clockwork in order to gain additional EG, but you have a maximum of 100. if you run out of EG, you lose consciousness until re-wound
Precicion; Crafting operations are much more likely to succeed.
Normal Abilities
Rampage; Begins a high mass charge in one direction.
Inventory (7/10)
10 Gears
11 Rods
12 wheels
11 Spiral Torsion Springs
Pile of assorted plants, (100%)
Using 2 Gears, 1 Spring, and 1 rod, you and the carpenter craft a brick making machine, He also winds you up as best he can so you can actually run the machine. +6 EG
After a few hours work, the Carpenter is exhausted, and you are as well, in your own way. -5 EG
The machine inspires you, it is good to get back to work. +2 PP
The wall is tolerable, but the carpenter says it will need much more work in the morning before it is good enough for the monsters.
Catalyst de Aer (FallacyofUrist)
Xander (Whisperling)